Democracy Promotion Project The final report and the dataset are available from the site linked above. “This study attempts to determine the impact of U.S. democracy assistance on democracy building world-wide. Unlike all prior published research, the data set is based upon an exhaustive survey of the entire democracy portfolio of the United States Agency…
Internet Center for Corruption Research Dr. Johann Graf Lambsdorff, who began the Corruption Perception Index (published by Transparency International) maintains this web site which also provides access to the CPI. All years of the CPI are here, 1995-present, as well as the two retrospective indexes representing 1980-1985 and 1988-1992. The site also contains a research…
Failed States Index “Now in its second year, the annual Failed States Index (FSI) was first introduced in the July/August 2005 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. The second FSI was published in the May/June issue. Click here to go to Foreign Policy’s website to view the articles. In 2005, we rated 75 countries, and in…
Migration Information Source Migration Information Source is a web site created by the Migration Policy Institute, a think tank focusing on the movement of people worldwide. It is a compendium of sorts because it pulls data from multiple sources into one place that you can query by country, U.S. state, or by ethnic group. It…
Journal of Peace Research Replication Datasets The Journal of Peace Research, published by PRIO (The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo), publishes the datasets for its articles on its website. Datasets are available from the current issue back to January 1998, vol. 35, no. 1. Carleton community members, consult the Journals List for access to this…
CSCW Datasets The Centre for the Study of Civil War (CSCW), part of the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), in Oslo, Norway provides public access to their research datasets. “CSCW has developed a set of datasets for use in the study of the determinants of armed conflict. In addition, CSCW has adapted several other datasets…
WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID2.0b) Cross-country and time-series observations (4665 Country/year observations) of the Gini coefficient as reported in surveys and as calculated by WIDER Good for: Showing changes in income inequality during the second half of the twentieth century. Time period: As early as 1867 but mainly from 1950’s to 2003. Documentation: User…
Gini index, gini coefficient, coefficient of concentration, gini’s ratio If you are trying to find the Gini index rather than calculate it yourself*, know that it can be a bit tricky to find. Some places you can look for Gini index are: WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) Human Development Reports, United Nations Development Programme…
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) A database of over 100 political, economic, social, and cultural indicators for 196 countries drawn from open sources. “The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic…
Global Development Finance A World Bank publication from that contains analysis and comparative statistics for nations and regions. The text is downloadable as PDFs, but use the links on the left for “regional outlooks” to more reports, the tables and charts of which can be downloaded in Excel format.